Liberation and Corruption

Reviews / Votes

"With his long and distinguished experience in tackling corruption from the grassroots in South Africa to the Cabinet table as a UK minister this is a must-read for anyone who is working to fight corruption and wrongdoing." Baroness Margaret Hodge, UK government anti-corruption champion "As a student anti-apartheid campaigner long ago, I find this an uncomfortable but important book." Jon Snow, broadcaster





"Peter Hain has always used his own freedom as a means of working for the liberation of others. Now he provides this well-researched, piercing exposure of how, why and where decadent corruption has betrayed emancipation." Rt Hon. the Lord Kinnock





"Honest and credible about both the successes and the failings of liberation leaders." Mavuso Msimang, Deputy President of ANC Veterans and former ANC MK Underground Commander





"Compellingly tracks corruption prevalent in liberation governments back to their colonial origins." Tara O'Connor, Director of Africa Risk Consulting "Towering from an indefatigable fighter against apartheid and corruption." John Battersby, South African journalist





"Hain shows that we need to invert colonially-rooted stereotypes about ubiquitous global corruption. Reproducing centuries-old power relations and systems of forceful extraction, the bulk of ill-gotten gains in Africa and elsewhere still flow almost inevitably to accounts in the global north." Professor Andre Odendaal, historian and Vice Chancellor's writer in residence, University of the Western Cape





"An essential reminder of how corruption pervades boundaries and the imperatives of maintaining scrutiny whoever is at the helm of government." Piers Pigou, Head of the Southern Africa Programme, Institute for Security Studies and former investigator for South Africa's Truth Commission